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Myths and Legends

In this section you can find all of the Myths and Legends we have gathered. Myths and Legends are the ones that we know about and Your Stories are the ones sent in and created by you. We like to hear about Myths and Legends from all over the world, please use the Submit a Myth or Legend form to send them in.
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Story title Currently sorted by story title ascending, click to sort descending Location Date Language
A Mermaid and a Magic Comb Cury, Cornwall, England 1700 - 1800 English
A Mummy's Tale Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England 1900 English
A Ride with the Devil Ranworth, Norfolk, England 1770 English
A Saint's Revenge - Edmund of the East Angles Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England 855 - 1050 English
A Wise Wizard and Some Curious Cats Betws-y-Coed, Conwy, Wales 1553 - 1620 English
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A Witch in a Bottle Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England 1100 - 1200 English
An Execution and a Miracle Westoning, Bedfordshire, England 1170 - 1350 English
Arachne the Spinner Ancient Lydia (today -North West Turkey) English
Baba-Yaga and Vasilisa the Fair Russia 1800 - 1900 English
Canobie Dick Eildon Hills, Scottish Borders, Roxburghshire, Scotland 1700 - 1750 English
Daedalus and Icarus Crete, and Aegean Sea 180BC - 120BC English
Humpty Dumpty and the Fall of Colchester Colchester, Essex, England 1648 English
Matilda's Bracelet Dunmow, Essex 1200 - 1216 English
Maud and the Dragon Mordiford, Hereford and Worcester, UK 1300 - 1400 English
Pandora's Box Ancient Greece 600BC - 500BC English
Rendlesham Forest and the Alien Craft Rendlesham, Suffolk, England 1980 English
Restless Spirits and Ringing Bells Dunwich & the Suffolk Coast, Suffolk, England 1700 English
Sir Rowland Alston's Soul Odell, Bedfordshire, England 1678 - 1791 English
Slaying the Dragon and Cheating the Devil Brent Pelham, Hertfordshire, England 1000 - 1100 English
St Osyth's Spring St Osyth, Essex, England 600 - 700 English
Testing the Witch-finder General Mistley, Essex, England 1620 - 1645 English
The Abandoned Children of Wailing Wood Watton, Norfolk, England 1541 - 1572 English
The Black Dogs of Bungay Bungay, Suffolk, UK 1165 - 1577 English
The Devil's Favourite Game Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, England 1600 - 1700 English
The Fiddler, the Alchemist and the Black Monk Binham Priory, Norfolk, England 1200 - 1299 English
The Flaming Gibbet of Galley Hill Luton, Bedfordshire, England 1700 - 1800 English
The Ghost Hound of Lyme Regis Lyme Regis, Dorset, England 1780 - 1800 English
The Giant Jack O'Legs Weston, Hertfordshire, England 1300 - 1399 English
The Glass Knight Saffron Walden, Essex, England 1599 - 1608 English
The Green Children of Woolpit Woolpit, Suffolk, England 1135 - 1155 English
The Green Lady of Longleat House Longleat, Wiltshire, England 1733 - 1736 English
The Gurt Wurm of Shervage Wood Shervage Wood, Somerset, England English
The Headless Ghosts of Blickling Hall Aylsham, Norfolk, England 1533 English
The Lady of Van Lake Black Mountain, Wales 1170 - 1230 English
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The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh Bamburgh, Northumberland, England 547 - 560 English
The Lambton Worm Lambton Park, Durham, England 1200 - 1300 English
The Lantern Man and the Wherryman Thurlton, Norfolk, England 1809 English
The Legend of Devil's Dyke Reach, Cambridgeshire, England 560 - 640 English
The Legend of Tam O' Shanter Alloway, Scotland English
The Legend of the Fens Southern Fenlands, Cambridgeshire, England 130 - 200 English
The Legend of the Three Sisters Blue Mountains, Australia English
The Little Blue Man Studham, Bedfordshire 1967 English
The Mysterious Treasure of the Unlucky Pirate Wapping, London and Tilbury, Essex, England 1645 - 1701 English
The Pedlar of Swaffham Swaffham, Norfolk, England 1400 - 1500 English
The Robber Dunne, the Staple and the Ring Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England 1100 - 1135 English
The Split Grey Goose Feather Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England 1646 - 1649 English
The Story of Gelert Beddgelert, Gwynedd, Wales English
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The Treasure of Callow Pit Southwood, Norfolk, England 1500 - 1600 English
The Wild Man of Orford Orford, Suffolk, England 1165 - 1220 English
The Witch and the Pancakes Toddington, Bedfordshire, England 1249 - 1251 English
Theseus and the Minotaur Crete, 65BC - 8BC English
Thomas the Rhymer and the Queen of Elfland Earlston, Berwickshire, Scotland 1220 - 1280 English
Tom Hickathrift and the Ogre of the Smeeth Tilney, Norfolk, England 900 - 1000 English
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